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Pre-orders on the gigantic 7-inch ASUS Fonepad phone/tablet hybrid have now opened in the UK. Carphone Warehouse, Amazon and Sainsbury's will each be selling the Fonepad, priced at £179.99, due for release on the 26th April. First revealed back at...

Gears of War 3 has already topped the 1 million pre-orders mark, despite the game not hitting stores until September 20th, making it the fastest Xbox 360 title to hit the landmark. The closing act of the brutal shooting...

It may not have been welcomed with arms as open as Apple may have liked, but we'd imagine the Cupertino giants are sitting pretty this weekend after reportedly selling over 120,000 iPad pre-orders last Friday. Sales of the cheaper Wi-Fi...

A cheerful Microsoft reckons that on American pre-orders alone, the latest in the Halo mega-franchise has already sold more than one million copies.
As well as this advance blockbuster warning, Microsoft also had its world-spamming Halo 3 publicity plans revealed on the Wall Street Journal, which also points out the awesome fact that video games hauled in $31.6 billion last year...